Iraq is holding hundreds of millions of dollars Qatari negotiators had brought to Baghdad as ransom money for the release of kidnapped hunters, the prime minister said Tuesday. A hunting party consisting of 24 Qataris and two Saudis kidnapped in southern Iraq in December 2015 was released...

President Tayyip Erdogan insisted there could be no solution to Syria's conflict while President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, and said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him he was not personally committed to the Syrian leader. "Assad is not the address for a prospective solution in...

The United States is "deeply concerned" by Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, the State Department said Tuesday. "We are very concerned, deeply concerned that Turkey conducted airstrikes earlier today in northern Syria as well as northern Iraq without proper...

 Egyptian security officials say an ISIS suicide bomber has killed four members of a local tribe and wounded others in the northern Sinai Peninsula. They say the attacker, driving a car filled with explosives, struck a checkpoint near the town of Rafah manned by members of the powerful...

Militants from ISIS posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday. Wearing police uniforms, they entered parts of the Old City on Monday to trick residents into showing their support for the federal forces, the...

A group called the Imam Shamil Battalion has claimed responsibility for the metro bombing in St. Petersburg, Russia this month that killed 16 people and said the bomber was acting on orders from Al-Qaeda, according to the SITE monitoring group. In a statement, originally published by a...

Tunisia's parliament voted Tuesday to ease the country's harsh law on drugs, in a move that could see offenders like youths caught smoking marijuana escape jail terms. The North African country has faced mounting calls from rights groups and civil society to reform the law. Tuesday's...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has voted in favor of re-opening monitoring procedures in Turkey. The assembly's monitoring committee raised concerns over constitutional amendments that were approved this month in a national referendum amid a state of emergency....

 Iran's supreme leader called on presidential candidates on Tuesday to champion economic self-sufficiency, further distancing himself from Hassan Rouhani's policy of opening to the West and seeking foreign investment. Allies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who aim to reclaim the presidency...

 Palestinian leaders Tuesday said Britain had rejected their request for an apology for a 1917 declaration that helped pave the way to the state of Israel, adding that they would pursue international court action unless London backtracked. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for...

Ukraine cut electricity to parts of an eastern region controlled by pro-Russian separatists Tuesday, citing unpaid debt – a step the Kremlin said amounted to a rejection by Kiev of breakaway territories. Three years after Moscow annexed the Crimean region, tensions between Ukraine and...

French far-right veteran Jean-Marie Le Pen said on Tuesday his daughter Marine, who faces centrist Emmanuel Macron in a May 7 presidential runoff, should have campaigned more aggressively for Sunday's first round, following the example of Donald Trump. With 7.5 million votes, Marine Le Pen...

The Taliban overran three security checkpoints in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, killing eight policemen and cutting off a key road and two of the region's districts, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. According to Sunatullah Timor, the provincial spokesman, the attack, which took...

 Ivanka Trump is joining Chancellor Angela Merkel and others in Berlin on Tuesday for talks on encouraging women's economic empowerment on her first international outing as a White House adviser. The one-day visit, at the invitation of the chancellor, gives Merkel and other officials...

 French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's political campaign was targeted by a group of Russian hackers last month, according to a report by a cybersecurity research group Tuesday. The Pawn Storm group, which has been linked to several high-profile attacks in the West, used...

 Iraq has launched the third and final phase of work to expand its southern Halfaya oil field, aiming to double its output capacity in 2018 to 400,000 barrels per day, a state-run oil company said. Additional facilities to separate crude oil from associated natural gas will be set up as...

Spanish police in the northeastern city of Barcelona have arrested eight people and raided 12 properties in a sweeping operation against Islamist militants, police said on Tuesday. The detained were all Moroccans aged between 21 and 39, the police said. The investigation and operation...

The United Nations secretary-general and high-ranking government officials from dozens of countries were meeting Tuesday in Geneva to drum up funds for war-torn Yemen, considered one of the world's greatest humanitarian crises. Antonio Guterres and top diplomats from Switzerland and Sweden...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to cancel talks set for Tuesday with German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel over the visiting diplomat's plan to also meet rights groups critical of Israel's government. An Israeli official speaking on condition of anonymity confirmed...

North Korea conducted a big live-fire exercise on Tuesday to mark the foundation of its military, media reported, as a U.S. submarine docked in South Korea in a show of force amid growing concern over Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs. The port call by the USS Michigan came as a U.S....